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Faith Coloccia - Voice 1 Grapheme

from Mutatis Mutandis by The Eternal Chord

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Processed and recorded onto cassette tape by Faith Coloccia. Engineered by Randall Dunn 2018. Vashon/Seattle WA.USA.

To me, a remix is a leap of trust. The person asking for the remix is entrusting you with something they've made and like. It's also a compliment to the person being asked. It means the person looking for a remix thinks you could make something new and interesting out of their material.

To speak of my process of remixing your music, I will first speak about field recording onto cassette. I started recording onto cassette as a teenager in the 1990s, which was a limited technology I used out of necessity, accessibility and limited means. It has since become part of my creative process and integrated into my work. I treat the field recordings I make as instruments themselves, and the artifacts of the hand-held cassette drop-out/static etc. as compositional tools.

I approached your compositions as I would field recordings by re-recording them onto cassettes in an echoey room. I see the source material as the instrument. Much like how the church space must be "played" when you play the pipe organ, I tried to "play" your recorded compositions. I am very interested in finding out the "primal matter" or the "bones" of sounds and ideas, and how they are translated through accessible tools. How can I change the dimension of an already beautiful sound, or bring a new life into a signal? I see re-mixing (when its good!) as a form of transmigration of one person's expression of their inner world into another's expression of their inner world.

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from Mutatis Mutandis, released September 4, 2020

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An improvised group made up of the Spire players, explores the sonics of the mighty organ, in all its thundering glory. A free range is given to the players to dive into musical territory they cannot do with scored work. Initially set up to provide links between the main sets, The Eternal Chord has evolved into one of the acts in its own right and has become a mainstay of all Spire live events. ... more

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